Invited artist: LUISA DUARTE
Title: The blue road
Archival print on 100%cotton rag paper
When I received the invitation to participate in 24 hours of Wonder exhibition, my first thought was of a new challenge, to create my work in 12” circle.
This encounter gave me a new and rewarding perspective. My work usually does not contain curves as I work primarily with lines and geometric trapezoidal shapes, so it is by itself a “moment of discovery”.
Confining my geometric trapezoids into a circle and enclosing these textural images into a digital collage has created an image that reference a new road a new adventure.
The blue road represented by an off-center blue path crossing the image works as an indication of a new trajectory in search of an aperture to another territory.
I have been working with fragility related to borders, limits and territories, and this work has open a new vision in perspective in finding other solutions, literal and imaginary.
Houston-based artist Luisa Duarte was born in Caracas, Venezuela. She received her bachelor’s in architecture from the Universidad del Zulia, in Maracaibo, Venezuela, in 1987.
Duarte's work has been exhibited in various institutions around the world, including the Holocaust Museum in Houston, Texas; The Museum of Geometric and Madi Art in Dallas, Texas; The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia, Maczul in Maracaibo, Venezuela; The Museo of Miranda in Los Teques, Venezuela; the Galveston Arts Center in Galveston, Texas; and the 2017 Texas Biennial in Austin, Texas.
Most recently, Duarte’s work was selected for inclusion in a major exhibition at the Art Museum of South Texas, Texas Artists - Women in Abstraction (2022); and a solo exhibition of her work, Inseparable Ties, was curated by Kinzelman Art Consulting, and exhibited in the TC Energy Building, Houston Texas (2021).
In 2019, Duarte was a recipient of the Houston Art Alliance’s “City’s Initiative Grant; and she received first place in the 10th Annual Visual Arts Alliance juried invitational in 2016.
Duarte finished in September 2022 a six week artist-in-residence at the Asia Society Texas Center in Houston and is currently an artist-in residence at P.A.C art Residency in Houston Texas.
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